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Bray’s St Patrick’s Day Festival hit fever-pitch on Friday as the town came alive for a spectacular St Patrick’s Day Parade. More than 1,500 people took part, with crowds of thousands more lining the streets.

More than a quarter of a million people took part in the New York City parade

The inclement weather didn’t deter hundreds of parade-goers from descending on Dundalk for the town’s first St Patrick’s Day parade since 2019.

“It is great to see so many, many people and to see the green splashed all over this Spanish town."

Magnificent floats, marching bands, local clubs and organisations all joined forces to come together for one of Killarney's best-ever parades.

It may have been a wet morning in Sligo but that didn’t deter the thousands from participating in and viewing its parade which began at midday and took its usual route through the town.

A sense of community is what St Patrick’s day celebrations are all about and no-where was this community spirit more evident than in the towns and villages across mid-Kerry that came together for their parades.

Try as it may, the inclement weather on St Patrick’s Day could not dampen the spirits of the large crowds of revellers that gathered in Fermoy and Mitchelstown to savour the atmosphere of the St Patrick’s Day parades as they made their way through the North Cork towns.

It’s not as famous as the town’s dawn march, but it’s bigger and held at a more sociable hour!

The threat of showers and bad weather certainly didn’t put off the St Patrick’s Day revellers in Tralee.

Craig Doyle made fleeting appearances on Friday's This Morning as the ITV show marked St Patrick's Day